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Statistics in Soil Research
Author(s) -
Inkson R. H. E.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series c (applied statistics)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.205
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9876
pISSN - 0035-9254
DOI - 10.2307/2985639
Subject(s) - statistics , environmental science , mathematics
Summary Some of the applications of statistics to soil research at the Macaulay Institute are reviewed. The paper deals with the place of soil testing and field experiments in providing a basis for fertilizer recommendations, model‐fitting and data processing in peat and forest soil investigations and in emission spectrographic analysis, and multivariate analysis in soil classification and botanical surveys.